Slobs more productive!

Information has recently come to light revealing that slobs may actually be MORE productive than their more ‘organized’ counterparts.   A new book entitled “A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder” makes this groundbreaking claim.

 In the book they argue that “neatness is overrated, costs money, wastes time and squashes creativity.  They make some really good points in the article… like neatness is expensive! 

“People who are really, really neat, between what it takes to be really neat at the office and at home, typically will spend anywhere from an hour to four hours a day just organizing and neatening” also “Hunting through messy piles has it’s value… You discover things that, if you had filed things or containerized them or purged them, you would never have seen them again.  It becomes a natural reminder system”

weird PS3 commercials

Many people have wondered about the weird commercials for the Sony PS3.  There’s been a possessed-looking baby doll, a Rubik’s cube that is solved and then explodes, eggs that hatch crows, and one where the console melts.  Who designs these things?

Anyway, I figured out why the PS3 commercials are so weird and don’t show gameplay — they don’t have any great games out yet!  😮

a bug in the Spiderman 2 game

Recently I played Spiderman 2 on the Gamecube and the PS2, and it’s a neat game.  There’s a lot of special moves you can learn, and plus just playing as Spiderman is cool.  You can swing from building to building, you can climb buildings, there’s side-missions, you can fight random criminal/thugs around the city.  And there’s some girl who loses her balloon every so often, who whines like crazy, and you can go pop the balloon, er, I mean, save it, to make her happy.  (She whines way too much!)  The game follows the story of the movie, except you get to play the role of Spiderman.  Overall, it’s a fun game, although sometimes repetitive.

But I noticed something really weird about the game : pedestrians have ninja-like skills!  You can’t hit them!  They can dodge your punches with lightning-fast reflexes.  It’s inconceivable!  This is Spiderman we’re talking about, who is a world-renown superhero, and who is crazy-fast.

Now, I know, Spiderman wouldn’t want to hit innocent civilians, so perhaps it’s a moot point.  But it made me think about something : it would be really bad if the pedestrians ever started committing crimes!  I mean, even the great Spiderman wouldn’t be able to stop them.  He can’t hit them, and somehow they aren’t affected by his webs.  I sure hope they don’t ever realize this and turn to a life of crime!  Then Spiderman would be powerless and the city would fall apart.

Obviously this is a major bug in the game.  I hope they fix this in Spiderman 3…

Does being fat give you potential energy?

Someone showed me this excerpt from an e-mail health newsletter, which doesn’t really add up, in my opinion.  Look at here:

I began studying exercise physiology and the mechanics of how a fat cell really deals with burning.  I found that a fat cell is really just a storage center for potential energy in a solid form.  That’s right, you really don’t have fat, you have POTENTIAL ENERGY.  Now doesn’t that sound better?

My research* has shown that having an abundance of fat cells gives me less energy.  And when I do exercise and get to the point of burning fat, it makes me even more tired!  Where’s all that potential energy?  I think the health expert is full of POTENTIAL CRAP.

I wonder if the writer of that got his degree at one of those non-accredited universities…

* I eat a lot.